Arianna Huffington, the site's editor-in-chief and president of AOL's Huffington Post Media Group, made the announcement on her HuffPo blog – a medium that will be heavily featured in HuffPo Maghreb's first days.

"To kick off Al Huffington Post Maghreb, we are featuring a range of bloggers," Huffington wrote, calling the new site "both a journalistic outlet and a blogging platform."

Under the editorial directon of Kader A. Abderrahim, HuffPo Maghreb is published in French, but Huffington said much of its content will be translated into several languages ("English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and soon German").